Tag: Random Thoughts

A quick blog entry about things that are currently on my mind. Watch for harsh word because I am in da mood today. General vs. Special Preparation. Again example of either/or thinking in my opinion. We have certain train…

Training for the “Broken” So after writing down the Riding the Wave, a blog entry on cyclic nature of the training process, I decided to take a break from heavy lifting, grinding out and chasing PRs and obsessing wit…

Riding the wave (Random thoughts) It is the end of the season, and usually my brain starts to do reflections on what was done both in team training and in my own training (if we can call it that way). The concept that em…

Just saw the good news on Verkhoshansky website – the second, updated and expanded edition of Special Strength Training Manual for coaches are going to be available in couple of days.

Couple of new things. After the publishing of my Book Recommendations for 8WeeksOut, Joel published the legendary Fundamentals of Sports Training by L. Matveyev in scanned pdf e-book form for FREE! This is a book that st…

Just wanted to let you know that I am working on the special edition of 8-weeks soccer pre-season plan for Joel Jamieson’s 8WeeksOut website in a form of printable e-book, that should be available in a week or two.Joel…

Stop Obsessing, Start Doing “Anticipation is a killer. It can lead to fear. Fear that you won’t perform as expected on your heavy days. Over time, this can lead many lifters to slowly be less and less motivated t…

Random Thoughts and Links For anyone interested into expert (elite athletes) development, I highly suggest checking out the following articles (this is a series of articles, but only two parts at the moment): http://www.…

It has been a while since I’ve updated this blog. To be honest I have been working and training myself and my writing mojo has left me one more time. I was thinking about writing on in-season planning, basically sharin…

I was quite busy lately and actually on training camp on Cyprus with FC RAD (you can check some of the pics here), thus I was not able to post much (or at all). I have actually met great Roberto Sassi in Larnaca when we…